Mobile Nav

Technical Operations

Purpose

The purpose of Technical Operations (TechOps) is to advance world-class systems engineering through activities that result in products which enable systems engineering growth and practice.  TechOps includes Working Groups, Project Teams & the governance of each.

Leadership

Tami Katz

Technical Director

Jimmie McEver

Deputy Technical Director

William D. “Bill” Miller

FuSE Lead

Timothy Swanson

Assistant Director, Working Group Coordination (Applications Domains)

Aryes Lahiry

Assistant Director, Working Group Coordination (Practice Enablers)

Dale A. Brown, P.Eng.

Assistant Director, Working Group Coordination (Foundation Enablers)

Open

Assistant Director, Working Group Coordination, (Research Enablers)

Open

Assistant Director, Working Group Coordination (Tools and Environment Enablers)

Mona Humes

Assistant Director, Project Team Coordination

Joseph “Joe” Marvin

Assistant Director, Standards Development

Jean-Luc Garnier

Deputy Assistant Director, Standards Development

Kyle Hall

Deputy Assistant Director of Standards Development

Mona Humes

Deputy Assistant Director of Standards Development

Andrew C. “Andy” Pickard

Assistant Director, IS Tech Ops Coordination

Dean Beale

Deputy Assistant Director, IS Tech Ops Coordination

Dean C. Norfleet

Assistant Director, Technical Product Development

Kevin E. Orr

Deputy Assistant Director, Technical Product Development

Javier Calvo-Amodio

Assistant Director of Technical Review

Raquel Hoffman

Deputy Assistant Director of Technical Review

Technical Operation Domains

The efforts in Technical Operations are categorized into four Domains: Process Enablers, Analytic Enablers, Transformational Enablers, Application Enablers.

Working groups are assigned to one of these domains.

Project teams often cross these domains and frequently consist of collaboration among different working groups.

Within Technical Operations we share the following beliefs

  • We apply Systems Engineering to what we do and how we do it.
  • We are all volunteers, so we back up each other and actively recruit new volunteers to support our efforts.
  • We strive to deliver what we promise at a high level of quality.
  • Systems Engineering practitioners are our customers.
  • We are servant leaders, removing barriers while following the intent of INCOSE policy.
  • We apply INCOSE values and principles when setting our priorities.
  • We are evolving to an “impactful professional society”.